The Nude Bomb (1980)

Director:

Clive Donner

Writers:

Mel Brooks (characters) &
Buck Henry (characters) ...

Release Date:

9 May 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

Tagline:

Don Adams is Agent 86 In His First Motion Picture [USA Theatrical]

Plot:

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.

Plot Keywords:

Studio Tour | Car Chase | Secret Agent | Alpine | Sky Diving

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Don Adams	...	Maxwell Smart
Sylvia Kristel	...	Agent 34
Rhonda Fleming	...	Edith Von Secondberg
Dana Elcar	...	Chief
Pamela Hensley	...	Agent 36
Andrea Howard	...	Agent 22
Norman Lloyd	...	Carruthers
Bill Dana	...	Jonathan Levinson Seigle
Gary Imhoff	...	Jerry Krovney
Sarah Rush	...	Pam Krovney
Vittorio Gassman	...	Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Walter Brooke	...	American Ambassador
Thomas Hill	...	President
Ceil Cabot	...	Landlady
Joey Forman	...	Agent 13

Also Known As:

Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb
The Return of Maxwell Smart (USA) (TV title)

Runtime:

USA:94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Singapore:PG | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | France:U

Filming Locations:

Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Time Life Films

Trivia:

Jenny Agutter, Shelley Hack, Linda Carter, Pam Dawber, and Valentine Corteste were considered for roles.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the sequence where Agent 86 and The Chief visit Carruthers at the apartment, the viewer can see in some shots that Don Adams is wearing a hearing aid in his left ear.

Quotes:

Maxwell Smart: 22 was married to the late, great 78? Wasn't he a little old for her?
Agent 13: [hiding in Popular Spy magazine] Well, let's see. 22 was 21 when she married 78 in '72. 78 was 46, that means 78 was 22, 32, 42, 25 years older than 22. 22 joined P.I.T.S when 78 died in 75.
Maxwell Smart: Tell me, 13, how was 78 killed?
Agent 13: Investigating the numbers racket.

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

Soundtrack:

You're Always There

Mostly a plug for the Universal Studios tour

As another IMDb contributor has noted, it seems very strange that Universal wanted to make a Maxwell Smart movie -- in fact, at the time, there was talk of doing a series of Smart movies a la Inspector Clouseau -- and then went out of its way to remove nearly every element that made "Get Smart!" so funny. Nearly all of Don Adams' supporting cast (esp. Barbara Feldon and Edward "Chief" Platt) are absent here, as are rivalling spy agencies CONTROL and KAOS, as well as *any* of the show's writers or producers. Happily (with the exception of the deceased Platt), they'd all get it right nine years later, for the TV-reunion-movie "Get Smart, Again!" Indeed, as of this writing, that movie is the only "Get Smart" item available on DVD; better that than "The Nude Bomb," at least.